Christmas Mountain Dulcimer

14 Classes

Away In A Manger

BEG | INT

In this course, Stephen Seifert will walk you through all the key elements to help you play this song. You will learn some interesting techniques for strumming and different rhythm techniques including accurate playing of dotted quarter notes followed by an eighth note.

12 Lessons / 38 Minutes

Angels We Have Heard on High

BEG | INT

Learn all the different parts of playing Angels We Have Heard On High

5 Lessons / 15 Minutes

Deck The Halls

INT | ADV

O Come All Ye Faithful

BEG | INT

The First Noel

INT

Silent Night

INT

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

BEG | INT | ADV

In The Bleak Mid Winter

INT | ADV

Joy to the World

BEG | INT

We Three Kings, Solo Mountain Dulcimer

INT | ADV

We Three Kings for HD/MD Duo

Dan and Steve collaborate on this one to create an arrangement of a familiar Christmas tune. This is a great lesson for learning about the process of arranging tunes and working with other instruments.

7 Lessons / 18 Minutes

Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

INT | ADV

8 Lessons / 18 Minutes

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

BEG | INT | ADV

4 Lessons / 13 Minutes

I Wonder As I Wander

BEG | INT

6 Lessons / 19 Minutes

Hammered Dulcimers General Instruction

16 Classes

Know The Circle

BEG | INT | ADV

In music theory, the circle of fifths (or circle of fourths) shows the relationships among the 12 tones of the chromatic scale, their corresponding key signatures, and the associated major and minor keys. More specifically, it is a geometrical representation of relationships among the 12 pitch classes of the chromatic scale in pitch class space. - Wikipedia

In Dulcimer School we're going to use the circle of fifths to learn many important and useful things about not just theory, but our hammered dulcimers, which are mechanical representations of this important musical construct.

10 Lessons / 01 Hour 02 Minutes

Humphries and Landrum Hammering Master Class

BEG | INT | ADV

Stephen Humphries and Dan Landrum take you deep into the philosophy of hammering, hammer motion, and demonstrate practical use of rudiments in developing your sticking skill.

11 Lessons / 01 Hour 33 Minutes

Music Theory for Hammered Dulcimer

BEG | INT

Music Theory as it applies to hammered dulcimer

13 Lessons / 47 Minutes

Adding or Replacing Hammer Leather

BEG | INT | ADV

If you no longer like the sound of your instrument the problem may be the hammers. The leather surface wears out, or at least it should if you're playing enough. I'll walk you through changing the leather.

4 Lessons / 15 Minutes

Paradiddle-diddle all the day

BEG | INT | ADV

Dampers

BEG | INT | ADV

Chord Techniques

INT | ADV

Fun at Your Fingertips

INT | ADV

Hand Interdependence

INT | ADV

It's been written, 'don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing' and if you can master these techniques you will achieve just that! Enjoy learning patterns that will improve your playing no matter what level player you are.

9 Lessons / 34 Minutes

Pivotal Hammering

BEG | INT

Set your hammer heads free to do what you want them to by developing a relaxed grip. This class teaches you a series of exercises designed to get the motion into the hammer heads where it belongs.

8 Lessons / 35 Minutes

Rhythm

INT | ADV

It's hard to play it if you can't feel it. It's impossible to feel it if you're to busy thinking about it. These lessons will help you internalize rhythm, syncopation and timing.

2 Lessons / 10 Minutes

Rudiments

BEG | INT | ADV

In this class, Dan demonstrates the Percussive Arts Society 40 fundamental rudiments that, if practiced, will improve your ability to play any song. Other videos in Dulcimer School will refer to these videos for understanding how to execute each rudiment.

26 Lessons / 01 Hour 11 Minutes

Tips and Tricks

BEG | INT

Tuning

BEG

Timing Exercise

What Should I Do First?

BEG | INT

Merry Christmas!

8 Classes

We Three Kings for HD/MD Duo

Dan and Steve collaborate on this one to create an arrangement of a familiar Christmas tune. This is a great lesson for learning about the process of arranging tunes and working with other instruments.

7 Lessons / 18 Minutes

We Three Kings, Solo Hammered Dulcimer

BEG | INT

Dan Teaches this popular Christmas tune. It's a simple version, but has moderately difficult hand separation. Great for beginners and intermediate players, but can also serve as a good foundation for advanced players.

9 Lessons / 12 Minutes

We Three Kings, Solo Mountain Dulcimer

INT | ADV

Steve teaches the popular Christmas tune. This tune is a little challenging, but certainly appropriate for intermediate players.

8 Lessons / 18 Minutes

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

BEG | INT | ADV

I've got two arrangements of this classic Christmas tune, one for beginners and one for intermediates and up. I also improvise a performance at the end.